I have a usb stick and NTFS hard drive partition that I'd want to use in nixos. On some other distribution I'd mount it using ntfs-3g in /mnt. But on nixos the directory doesn't exist, I suppose nixos ...

A partition of my internal hard drive (not the root partition) I want to mount automatically on boot. I've been using /etc/fstab to mount my external backup drive automatically read-only, so this is ...

I have a Debian sid system (Wheezy) (and same for arch), without any desktop environment (and no Xorg at all).
I can mount my SD-cards, USB sticks, external HDD by label into a specified directory in ...

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I have a SAMBA/CIFS server where the users have their own directories. My client machines run Linux or Windows. What I am trying to do is to use that share in both OSes. But my users can login in any ...

I just bought a raspberry pi and want to start using it as a NAS. I'm fairly new to this, but I've gotten this far..
I've got an external hard drive (freshly formatted NTFS) connected with a USB cable ...

I have a problem with an udev-rule. i simply want to mount a usb stick when it is plugged in. the rule correctly executes a script which mkdir the mount point and then calls mount. everything seems to ...

Yesterday I add a SSD to my PC configuration and I make on it a fresh installation. At the moment of installation I replace my old HDD and there was only the SSD. When the installation finish I make a ...

I use PLEX and Sickrage to manage and play video content.
My video content is on a USB drive, which is mounted to /media/series.
For whatever reason, at some stage the USB drive would be un-mounted ...

I have an external hard drive (WB My Passport), connected via a USB port. My OS is Elementary OS Freya on a Dell Vostro 1510.
Currently, in order to mount the drive, I have to open the file manager, ...

I'm using Lubuntu 14.04 on a Vaio laptop.
When I insert my card it is not automatically mounted. I need to remove and insert around 3 or 4 times until the file manager opens.
So I'm trying to mount ...

Right now I'm using zfsonlinux on Fedora 19, and it works excellently. Mounting works at bootup as planned using the initscript (included with zfs) that systemd calls, but there's a pretty significant ...

I am successfully mount the remote directories on my local directories, I have to created folder and files with 777 permission so others can able to access this files so that's why I used umask=000 ...

Continuing on Automounting plugged devices in linux, which left things a bit basic. Running Gentoo, I'm automounting a combination of local and network devices on my laptop with autofs-5.0.4-r5. Doing ...

So I installed usbmount on my raspberry pi and it mounted:
usb0, usb1, usb2, usb3, ... usb7, but I only have 2 pen drives connected. The other 2 USB ports are being used to a wireless receptor and a ...

I'm using Kubuntu. I'd like to use my pendrive primarily for storing various data for my Linux (and not losing metadata like permissions and ownerships), but I don't want to exclude access to it from ...

Previously I used openSUSE 11.4 and I had an old manual mount. Despite, I copied all config files (I think) I noticed that unknown to /etc/fstab devices are automounted (know I defined as noauto). But ...

I'm trying to figure how to mount an ext4 formatted external HD with permissions for a specific user using autofs, but I'm only able to mount it as owned by root.
I have read that ext4 mount points ...

I'd like to know what is the exact mechanism (implementation) used to defer mounting until after network interface is up when one uses _netdev option in /etc/fstab?
Does systemd alter this behavior?
...

I have a server (running Ubuntu 14.04) that has a hot-swap drive bay. I typically use the hot-swap bay to mount one of a bunch of loose hard disks that I shuttle large scientific datasets around on. ...